Happy New Year

We are among the Whittier 2013 Calendar pin ups
(month of November ), published by the Whittier Alliance .org

Photo by Steven Lang
stevenlang.net

Stay Away

They seem to be guarding the silk poinsettias planted in their yard's border.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

First Snow

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Presidential Election Day, 2012

Voting Day around Whittier Park, Minneapolis, November 6, 2013

Photos: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Aztec Warrior Mural

Taylor Lindgren designed this Mexican Aztec warrior mural on the vacant warehouse, at the corner of 29th St. and Blaisdell Ave. S., Minneapolis.

It wraps around the corner of the wall:

  Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Milkweed

The milkweed seeds' silky flying apparatus is called pappus, from the Ancient Greek word pappos, meaning "old man".
 
Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Cat Party!

Seen on the "comments & suggestions" bulletin board at the Wedge Co-op (Lyndale & 22nd St.): Happy Halloween!

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

The Marie Antoinette

 

From the AIA Guide to the Twin Cities:
Marie Antoinette Apartments
Blaisdell and 22 St. W.
Architect Carleton W. Farnham, 1939
"A charming Moderne apartment building with black vitrolite glass around the entrances."

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

"Pretty cunning, don'chya think?"

Amanda with her Jayne hat and her son's monkey, "Monkey," at Dunn Bros Coffee.

The hat is from Joss Whedon's sci-fi show Firefly:
tough-guy character Jayne Cobb receives such a hat in the mail from his mother. He puts it on and asks his bemused shipmates, "How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'chya think?"
 
His shipmate Wash comments, "Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything."

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza